We would like to offer our sincerest condolences for those who lost their lives as a result of the synchronized terror attacks in central Paris, France on November 13th.We have received a report that, at present, none of the kenshi of the France Federation were harmed. However, we express our deepest regret that such a great number of sinless individuals passed away.We pray that the grief of the bereaved family members and other related individuals of the deceased will be relieved as soon as possible.

We will be undergoing a renewal of the WSKO website to enrich its contents. Recently, we have begun to receive a great number of branch reports to be published on the website, and the contents of these reports are quite long. Therefore, we made the following changes to be a standard for publishing reports on the website.

• We will prioritize reports that include events at the federation, regional, and multi-branch levels. (We may ask you to publish reports of individual branches on your federation and branch websites.)• The length of reports must be no longer than 300 words, or if in Japanese, no longer than 600 characters.• The WSKO Secretariat will select pictures for publishing on the website.

Thank you for forwarding your activity reports to the WSKO website. At present our website is under renewal. Unfortunately, we are unable to receive any future reports until this renewal process is complete. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please bear with us for just a little while longer. We will let you know as soon as the website renewal is complete, so we can again receive and publish your reports.

Please note that articles received by WSKO already, will soon be uploaded. Again we thank you for your patience in this matter.​